Loafousia Does Maia: Special Edition

Loafousia Does Maia: Special Edition is a special edition of Loafousia Does Maia that came after the tenth edition. The edition was aimed to find Loafousia's favourite song of the first ten editions of Maia Song Contest from every single song entered. It was structured so that small national finals were held for each country to have more than one entry in the contest (meaning that Brilliania, Ezzul, Joeriakia, Laranjeiras and Timonia & Senenanda did not have national finals, but their only entries still participated in the main contest). Each country had their top two/five entries (depending on how many they had, and whether there were ties), chosen by their previous placements in Loafousia Does Maia.

Then, once each country has their entry chosen, they enter four quarter finals, of 15/16 entries, following their allocation into one of eight pots. From each quarter final, 10 countries progress to the two semi finals, where another 13 countries will qualify in order to make a final of 26 countries, where jurors will vote as usual to find a winner.

Pots
The 63 participating countries were split into 8 pots, 7 of which containing 8 countries and the last pot containing 7. These pots were determined by an average calculation of their top two-five performing entries in Loafousia Does Maia. Pot 1 contains the most successful countries, while Pot 8 contains the least successful countries, as well as the five countries who have only participated once.

Wildcard Battle
Following the results of all four quarter finals, it was revealed that the 11th, 12th and 13th places in each quarter final would take part in a wildcard battle, in which two countries would qualify to the semi finals.